Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 April 2013
120th MEDICAL COMPANY
- Organized and Federally recognized 3 September 1918 in the Oklahoma National Guard at Tulsa as Company B, 3d Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 2 June 1921 as Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 3d Infantry
- Redesignated 14 October 1921 as Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 180th Infantry, an element of the 45th Division (later redesignated as the 45th Infantry Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 31 December 1921 as Company L, 180th Infantry
- Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Tulsa
- Inactivated 24 November 1945 at Camp Bowie, Texas
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 6 March 1947 in the Oklahoma National Guard at Tulsa as Company F, 279th Infantry, an element of the 45th Infantry Division
- Ordered into active Federal service 1 September 1950 at Tulsa (Company F, 279th Infantry [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 8 December 1952 at Tulsa)
- Released 30 April 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Company F, 279th Infantry (NGUS)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as Company A. 2d Battle Group, 179th Infantry, an element of the 45th Infantry Division
- Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 April 1963 as Company D, 120th Medical Battalion, an element of the 45th Infantry Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1968 as the 145th Medical Company and relieved from assignment to the 45th Infantry Division
- Location changed 1 December 1971 to Sperry; on 1 May 1982 to Broken Arrow
- Ordered into active Federal service 21 November 1990 at Broken Arrow; released from active Federal service 16 May 1991 and reverted to state control
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1995 as Company B, 111th Medical Battalion
- Ordered into active Federal service 21 March 2003 at Broken Arrow; released from active Federal service 20 March 2004 and reverted to state control
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2007 as the 120th Medical Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 4 October 2010 at Broken Arrow
- HOME STATION: Broken Arrow
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Sicily (with arrowhead)
- Naples-Foggia
- Anzio
- Rome-Arno
- Southern France (with arrowhead)
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Korean War
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered NURNBERG
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered ACQUAFONDATA
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1951-1952
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History